Sidney Powell advised Donald Trump during the final frantic weeks of his bid to remain in power despite losing the election. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Published October 19, 2023
Powell’s guilty plea makes her the first member of Trump’s close advisers to admit to crimes related to the 2020 election.
A former attorney for Donald Trump who was at the center of his effort to subvert the 2020 election has reached a plea deal and will cooperate with Georgia prosecutors in the racketeering case against Trump and many of his allies.
Sidney Powell, who advised Trump during the final frantic weeks of his bid to remain in power despite losing the election, pleaded guilty Thursday to six misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with performance of election duties.
Powell’s guilty plea, which she entered in a court hearing in Atlanta, makes her the first member of Trump’s close advisers to admit to crimes related to the 2020 election. She had been slated to go on trial Monday in Fulton County, Ga., on charges that she joined Trump in the alleged racketeering conspiracy and helped engineer the breach of election equipment in a Georgia county.
Powell was sentenced to six years probation and will be left without a criminal record if she complies with all aspects of the agreement, Judge Scott McAfee indicated. She also must write an apology letter to Georgia citizens.
McAfee told Powell the plea deal requires her to take the witness stand against co-defendants if requested.
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SOURCE: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/19/sidney-powell-attorney-who-aided-trumps-bid-to-subvert-election-pleads-guilty-00122444
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Former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell pleads guilty in Georgia election interference caseTom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images
Published October 19, 2023
Sidney Powell, one of 18 co-defendants in former President Donald Trump’s election interference case in Georgia, has taken a plea deal in which she has agreed to testify in the case.
She is pleading guilty to six misdemeanor charges, according to the agreement read in court Thursday. She will get 12 months of probation for each count, as well as a $6,000 fine.
As part of the agreement, Powell must “testify truthfully about any co-defendants” involved in the case and “provide all documents to the district attorney’s office” relevant to their case against the other co-defendants, according to Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee.
Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead counsel in the Georgia case, responded to Powell’s plea deal by telling ABC News in a statement, “Assuming truthful testimony in the Fulton County case, it will be favorable to my overall defense strategy.”
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SOURCE: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/former-trump-lawyer-sidney-powell-takes-plea-deal/story?id=104136350
RELATED: Ex-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell pleads guilty, could testify in Georgia case
Published October 19, 2023
A former lawyer for Donald Trump on Thursday pleaded guilty to aiding the former U.S. president’s efforts to overturn his election defeat in the state of Georgia, agreeing to testify against him if called.
The lawyer, Sidney Powell, pleaded guilty to six counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with performance of election duties, a misdemeanor charge. She agreed to testify against Trump and the other 16 co-defendants in the case if prosecutors ask her too.
The Georgia case is one of four concurrent criminal cases that Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is facing, and one of two specifically focused on his attempts to overturn his election defeat. Trump continues to falsely claim his loss was the result of fraud.
Powell’s plea came just days before she was set to go to trial beginning on Monday on charges including racketeering and conspiracy to commit election fraud.
A lawyer for Powell did not immediately return a request for comment.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to a sweeping Fulton County, Georgia, indictment charging him with violating the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO, act in his efforts to overturn his loss to Democratic President Joe Biden.
Powell admitted to plotting to unlawfully access secure election machines in rural Coffee County in southeastern Georgia in January 2021. The plea agreement calls for her to be sentenced to six years of probation.
